Rose de Fremery

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Former IT Director turned tech writer, Rose de Fremery built an IT department from scratch; she led it through years of head-spinning digital transformation at an international human rights organization. Rose creates content for major tech brands and is delighted to return to the Spiceworks community that once supported her own IT career.

Stories by Rose de Fremery

Don't let tech churn derail your IT operations

Software

Building IT capabilities that survive technology churn

Rose de Fremery

Last week, MegaVendor Corp absorbed that best-of-breed solution you spent months selecting. The acquisition email is waxing poetic about an...

Software

When to fire your technology

Rose de Fremery

Once you've added something to your tech stack, it can easily go on autopilot. Before long, another renewal notice arrives...

Software

AI washing: Surviving ‘AI-powered’ vendor fatigue

Rose de Fremery

Remember the 'cloud-native' gold rush? Every vendor slapped that label on their products regardless of the actual underlying architecture. History...

Software

Everybody’s a developer now. What does this mean for IT?

Rose de Fremery

First, marketing deployed a customer analytics dashboard, then sales built a forecasting tool on top of it. IT found out...

Smart outsourcing decisions start with understanding your true costs, capabilities, and control requirements.

IT Spending

Oursource or in-house: When to engage an MSP?

Rose de Fremery

At some point, every IT leader faces the same fundamental question: What should we handle ourselves, and what should we...

It's time to look inward if your young IT staff is jumping ship.

IT Careers

Why your best IT people are leaving

Rose de Fremery

Your youngest IT professionals are heading for the exits. According to the Spiceworks 2025 State of IT Report, 53% of...